Microsoft announced, at the 2004 International Consumer Electronics Show,
a new software that will connect your home PC with your Xbox and make them work
as one, details below…

Picture this: Your family’s Xbox console is set up in your teenage sons’ game
room. You’re watching the football game using the Media Center PC in your living
room, but your sons want to watch the action movie they recorded on the PC yesterday.
Your Media Center PC and Xbox have both become central components of your digital
entertainment system—wouldn’t it be ideal to connect these experiences?

Xbox Media Center Extender Kit will be a new Xbox title that brings Media Center
entertainment experiences onto your TV or display through your Xbox console,
so you have even more choice in where and how you enjoy your digital entertainment.
Microsoft will release Xbox Media Center Extender Kit as a packaged software
product that runs off Xbox like an Xbox game. With a wired or wireless connection
back to the Media Center PC, your Xbox console will now allow you to enjoy your
PC’s digital entertainment media when and how you want.

Key benefits:

  • Easy to Use.
    • Browse, find, and enjoy your digital music, photos, TV, and DVDs using
      Xbox Media Center Extender Kit via the familiar Media Center interface.
    • Easily connect your Xbox game console to your Media Center PC. The Xbox
      Media Center Extender Kit will come with a setup CD-ROM for your Media
      Center PC, so you can begin enjoying your digital entertainment in a snap!
  • Flexible.
    • You can connect your Xbox game console to your Media Center PC using
      a wired or wireless connection. You will not need to change your home
      networking setup.
    • Enjoy your digital entertainment using your existing TV or monitor and
      Xbox. You will not need any new displays or devices.
  • Convenient.
    • Watch TV using the Media Center PC in the living room, while your son
      watches a recorded movie using the Xbox Media Center Extender Kit in the
      game room. Up to five different instances of the Media Center interface
      can run simultaneously.

Product components:

  • DVD with Xbox Media Center Extender Kit Xbox title
  • CD-ROM to set up Media Center PC connection to Xbox Media Center Extender
    Kit
  • Media Center remote control and IR receiver
  • Documentation for installation and use

Source: Microsoft’s
Xbox Media Center Information Site

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